Please join Arcana: Books on the Arts on Saturday, December 13th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM as we welcome esteemed Los Angeles-based artist, musician, and author Senon Williams to celebrate the release of his new Hat & Beard Press publication, Scrapyard.

“The book forms a graveyard or a scrapyard of items one might typically discard. In our time of extreme wastefulness, assembling the detritus from his art-making into a scrapbook gives each of these items a collective home and value. Gathered from Williams’ day-to-day studio practice, they are thoughts jotted down, remnants of materials used, random receipts, which suggest a sense of care, like acts of preservation, mending and repurposing. Each piece is held, suspended from its final dissolution, forming a new place in which to exist. Interspersed within the pages are vignettes looking at the histories of scrapbooking and ephemeral collection over time by Richelle Munkhoff and Beth Ann Whittaker of Plain Sight Archive. There is a long legacy and history of this artistic action and this publication represents now another documentation of time and place.”

We look forward to seeing you Saturday for the opportunity to meet and greet Senon – and to pick up his engaging new book! If you cannot attend and would like to purchase a signed copy of Scrapyard, his hot-off-the-press limited edition etching Everything Must Go, or a selection of older titles, please place your order here!

Senon Williams is a lifelong visual artist and musician, and a Los Angeles native. Ranging in media from paintings on paper and canvas, to wood sculpture and assemblage. Senon explores poignant visualization of the inherent human struggle both ancient and contemporary. He finds space in the natural world, exposing stages of human evolution. His love of language play, sounds, textures, and associations of word and object often explore the triumphs and conflicts inherent in identity, history, and community. Senon’s search for truth leaves him amazed and baffled. Creating art is his meditation on meaning, or no meaning in the face of our turbulent existence. The written word and poetry is a consistent part of his practice.